Noticings 8: Introducing our Board!
September at Careful Trouble
This month, we are well and truly back from our summer holidays in what has been a busy month. We launched two new research projects and had our first Promising Trouble Board meeting. The team have also been sharing our work across the country, from the ‘Building Tech for Everyone’ Reception at this year’s Labour Party Conference to launching ‘AI in the Streets’ at Nesta HQ.
Meet the Promising Trouble Board
Earlier this year, we set out to convene a board whose ambitions, expertise and experiences would help Promising Trouble grow.
We’re so excited to now introduce you to our first board members:
Fadzai Madzingira is a Trust & Safety professional with a decade of experience in policy development and responsible technology
Helen Jaffa is Head of People at Watershed, and is responsible for designing and delivering the organisation’s people strategy.
Jo Roach is a serial COO, leadership consultant & mentor, who supports organisations through transformative strategic and operational change, and helps start-ups and scale ups to set up for success.
Dom Hallas is the Executive Director of Startup Coalition (formerly Coadec), an independent advocacy organisation that aims to make policy in the UK better for tech startups and scaleups.
Find out more about our board.
We are still looking for a treasurer - take a look at our recruitment pack if you’re interested.
Digital ID in the UK
This month, we released a rapid response report “Digital ID in the UK”. In this new publication, we offer essential insight into public attitudes on digital identification at a critical juncture for the government’s policy agenda.
We’ve found that different generational interests and people’s experiences due to ethnicity, nationality, and identity have significant impacts on their opinions about and experiences of digital ID.
AI In The Street
Over the past 6 months, researchers in five cities worked with community partners and artists in AI In The Street. They took a closer look the impacts of innovation from the perspectives of the people who live and work there.
Now, we bring together these findings in a policy paper through a policy lens, to examine the role of place-based innovation has for the new Government.
What else have we been up to?
Rachel Coldicutt launched a new paper "People Not Code: The Case for a Digital Civil Society Observatory" for the British Academy.
Along with our friends at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Connected by Data, Startup Coalition, Open Data Institute and ZoomInfo, we hosted 'Building Tech for Everyone', a great tech policy meet up at the Labour Conference. We're looking forward to continuing the conversations around people powered tech.
We have new merch in our store including t-shirts and tea towels!
Opportunities and Events
The Ada Lovelace Institute is looking to hire an Editorial Manager to oversee editorial standards and practice at the Institute. Applications close 1st October.
The Turing Lectures are back! In the second talk, on 14th October, Abeba Birhane will be discussing “Can we trust AI?”. Get your tickets here
Stop Killer Robots are looking for young visual, audio or text based artists to explore what a future where autonomous weapons have been regulated looks like. Apply by 30th October
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